Re: Garbage Collection tuning - G1 is now a good option

2015-01-09 Thread William Bell
It looks like 32 bit is affected. > On 2013-08-14 08:27, Dawid Weiss wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I am a committer to the Lucene/Solr project. We've recently hit what >> we believe is a JIT/GC bug -- it manifests itself only when G1GC is >> used, on a 32-bit VM: On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 7:10 PM,

Re: Garbage Collection tuning - G1 is now a good option

2015-01-09 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 1/1/2015 12:10 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > I've been working with Oracle employees to find better GC tuning > options. The results are good enough to share with the community: > > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ShawnHeisey#GC_Tuning > > With the latest Java 7 or Java 8 version, and a couple of tu

Re: Garbage Collection tuning - G1 is now a good option

2015-01-07 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Not sure about AggressiveOpts, but G1 has been working for us nicely. We've successfully used it with HBase, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and other custom Java apps (all still Java 7, but Java 8 should be even better). Not sure if we are using in on our Solr instances. e.g. see http://blog.sematext.com

Re: Garbage Collection tuning - G1 is now a good option

2015-01-02 Thread Mark Miller
bq. But tons of people on this mailing list do not recommend AggressiveOpts It's up to you to decide - that is why it's an option. It will enable more aggressive options that will tend to perform better. On the other hand, these more aggressive options and optimizations have a history of being mor

Re: Garbage Collection tuning - G1 is now a good option

2015-01-02 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 1/1/2015 6:35 PM, William Bell wrote: > But tons of people on this mailing list do not recommend AggressiveOpts > > Why do you recommend it? I haven't done any comparisons with and without it. To call it a "recommendation" is a little bit strong. I use it, and I am seeing good results. My r

Re: Garbage Collection tuning - G1 is now a good option

2015-01-01 Thread William Bell
But tons of people on this mailing list do not recommend AggressiveOpts Why do you recommend it? On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > I've been working with Oracle employees to find better GC tuning > options. The results are good enough to share with the community: > > https

Garbage Collection tuning - G1 is now a good option

2015-01-01 Thread Shawn Heisey
I've been working with Oracle employees to find better GC tuning options. The results are good enough to share with the community: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ShawnHeisey#GC_Tuning With the latest Java 7 or Java 8 version, and a couple of tuning options, G1GC has grown up enough to be a viable